Places in Bodrum

The Cumhuriyet trattoria that has held the Michelin Bib Gourmand for Neapolitan pizza and seafood risotto since 2013

İlknur and Cengiz Özbaşaran's family fish house on the Gümüşlük beach since 1992, recommended in New York Times

Long-standing rakı and fish house on Yahşi shore, catch of the day on ice, large dining room.

Susona's all-day Aegean kitchen above the infinity pool, micro-local produce, Saturday Taverna nights

Köşebaşı's Bitez branch since 2022, year-round Adana-Tarsus kebap programme with a real garden.

One of Gümüşlük's oldest tables, 160 seats with a direct sightline to Tavşan Adası and the sunset

A Gümüşlük classic since 1990, fish-grill room on the Yalı Mevkii with the same logic three decades on

Small rakı-balık room on Müskebi Caddesi, grilled octopus and prawn casserole as house signatures.

A 1991-opened fish room on the iskele, navy-blue tables, white walls, the same family on the floor

A direct-on-the-water Gümüşlük fish room with the boats and Rabbit Island a metre from the table

Bitez modern-Aegean kitchen, careful sourcing, calm room, the established middle of the bay.

The Adana / Tarsus kebab institution's Gündoğan summer outpost, the cove's reliable meat night.

Bitez seafront beach club since 1993, the bay's longest-running daytime room, residential rather than spectacle.

The Gündoğan iskele fish anchor, Mustafa's family, the day's catch, the cove's quiet evening.

Güvercinlik's quieter waterside fish house, on the same Sahilyolu address since 1985

Torba's classic family fish house, on the Kilise bay since 1987 and open through the off-season

Yalıkavak's original family fish kitchen, opened in the early 1980s and still on the same corner

The mother-and-son Aegean fish house that has held the Yahşi-Ortakent waterfront since the marina was built

Tilkicik Cove's original fish house, on its own jetty since 1993 and still family-run

The first table on the Gümüşlük iskele since 1962, still run by the family